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2 Jets Take Evasive Action To Avoid 3rd Plane

DUBLIN, IRELAND — Two passenger jets bound for New York took evasive action over the Atlantic Ocean on Friday after a KLM airliner heading for the Netherlands found itself 45 miles off course.

A British Airways Boeing 767 and a Swissair MD-11 changed course within 10 minutes of each other to avoid the risk of colliding with the KLM MD-11, authorities said. All three planes later landed safely, and passengers may not even have noticed the close call.

The same type of Swissair plane, an MD-11, crashed last week off the coast of Nova Scotia, killing all 229 people on board.

Friday's incidents happened more than 400 miles west of Ireland in the Shanwick Oceanic Airspace, said Robert Ferrugia, spokesman for Britain's Civil Aviation Authority.